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Should the official Atlantic hurricane season be lengthened?

April 14, 2021

Know someone who goes by Wilfred or one of these other names? You may because there are 30 of them, correlating with the unprecedented 30 “named storms” during the 2020 Atlantic #hurricaneseason. One of our NESDIS scientists and contributors share in this paper about increasing trends in the length of the active hurricane season, with storms forming earlier and later in the season than normal.

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Average number of named storms by day of the year in the historical record from 1851–2019 (dark blue line). The light blue shading denotes the range between the minimum and maximum number of storms observed by each day. The days of formation for the 2020 named storms are shown by the red squares.